Buseck Center for Meteorite Studies

Delve into current research at the Center with this periodic news feature, and catch a glimpse of what our students and scientists are working on right now! Ph.D. Candidate Emilie Dunham is melting a mixture of oxide powders in a platinum crucible to make a new standard for SIMS (Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry) analysis of…

Delve into current research at the Center with this periodic news feature, and catch a glimpse of what our students and scientists are working on right now! The Center recently installed a new Aridus II Desolvating Nebulizer System; this highly specialized sample introduction equipment is used to increase analyte element sensitivity during isotopic analysis of…

San Francisco Mountains, IVA iron meteorite.  Image ⓒ ASU/CMS.

To welcome this year’s incoming ASU freshmen, the Center for Meteorite Studies has partnered with the School of Earth and Space Exploration to dedicate a meteorite to the Class of 2020. The Class of 2020's meteorite is actually a collection of spheres cut from the Gibeon iron meteorite.  Gibeon was found in Namibia, in 1836,…

Nuevo Mercurio is an ordinary (H5) chondrite that fell the evening of December 15, 1978, in Zacatecas, Mexico. According to the Meteoritical Bulletin (MB 57): "A bright fireball, traveling NE. to SW. and visible over a radius of at least 200 km, exploded over north-central Mexico and scattered meteorites over an elliptical area more than…